Siskal Bonifante is a Mexican-American immigration lawyer who is accustomed to managing his practice in Washington D.C. on the sleazy side - high volume and low quality for whatever the market will bear. His world takes a turn when his Russian nanny clients start disappearing and he finds himself caught in a federal investigation for sex-trafficking, and the bad guys take him for a ride to find out how much he knows - and try to bury him! The judge who was going to hear his Nicaraguan client's asylum case is murdered and Siskal is contracted to find the murderer - by the dead judge speaking to him from the grave. His investigation leads him from the hot Latino salsa clubs in Washington's Hispanic barrios to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. What he uncovers leads him on a race against time to stop the executioner's knife before it strikes again. Jonathan Worlde's ground-breaking novel Latex Monkey with Banana was winner of the prestigious Hollywood Magnum Discovery Award and became a cult classic. The offbeat style was described as "like Kinky Freidman if he had a Latino soul." Deep in the Cut was a finalist (under a different title) in the annual St. Martin's Best Private Eye Novel contest. Jonathan Worlde's series explores the culture of America's undocumented immigrants who try to survive in an underground cutthroat world of alien -dope-gun smuggling and who struggle to feed their families while avoiding the knock of immigration agents at their doors. Kirkus Reviews: "Impressive are his colorful portraits of la Raza, the Central American immigrants who populate this tale, including Bonifante's ex-brother-in-law (a Latino FBI agent) and the hookers, housekeepers and clients who deal with the lawyer every day. Readers will be drawn to Bonifante despite his mistakes and confusion...Bonifante's goofy charm, keen self-perception and wily ambition make for quite the escapade."
